Random Acts Of Senseless Violence

Random Acts of Senseless Violence

Author Jack Womack
Country United States
Language English
Series "Dryco" sequence[1]
Genre(s) Speculative fiction, dystopian original
Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication time October 1995
Media typeface replica (hardcover/paperback)
Pages 255 pp (hardback)
256 pp (paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-871-13577-9 (hardback)
ISBN 0-802-13424-6 (paperback)
Preceded by Elvissey
Followed by Heathern

Plot introduction

The unique is told as a fictional diary by the 12-year-old protagonist Lola Hart, and facts Lola and her family's experiences in a near-hope Manhattan in which violence, rising unemployment, and riots are commonplace in the city, as well as the breather of the United States. As the untruth progresses, Lola transforms from a student at one of Manhattan's most privileged exclusive schools to a street-clever hooligan as she and her family struggle to endure the despair of a breakdown government and reduction.

Critical signal

The book did not fascinate significant awareness on statement; still there were a few reviews, it was not nominated for any awards although Womack's preceding work, Elvissey won the prestigious Philip K. Dick Awarded and was shortlisted for the Locus Award. In a July 2008 thing for Tor.com, Jo Walton decried the dangerous neglect of the work.Walton speculated that its need of prominence was due to its first low-key receipt, the "singularly appalling" swathe art of the early editions, a title that was "off-putting" and misleading, and its disconnect from the zeitgeist of the time, which was focused on cyberpunk and hole opera. Fellow knowledge echoed her fiction creator Cory Doctorow, who described the work as "an unflinching, engrossing, trying launch-of-age story" and referred to it as "Womack's underappreciated masterpiece."

Random Acts Of Senseless Violence




Shut up, don't pass the blame

The same god-damn thing just the name's have changed

On the day you were busted your forgot the line

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

An animal's acting instinctively

Glorified murderer, insanity

Do you think I'd kill you just count to one

You're the coward, with the gun



Yeah, you thought you knew me

Yeah, you hardly knew me

You don't know me

I know I shouldn't care

My crazy senses of right and wrong that can't be made to break this,

break this, break this



I see something wrong and fix it with my hands

I walk a thin blue line, this cross I came to bear



So now you're dead well wha' dya know

And am I sorry no, I don't think so

They wanted sympathy now that's a bit much

How much did you show, how much

Take the value for one human life

And place it all right down on a roll of the dice

And a one, two, three for the pain you bring

I'm the bird without the left wing



Yeah, you thought you knew me

Yeah, you hardly knew me

You don't know me

I know I shouldn't care

My crazy sense of right and wrong that can't be made to break this,

break this, break this



I see something wrong and fix it with my hands

I walk a thing blue line, this cross I came to bear



Random acts of senseless, random acts of senseless

Random acts of senseless, random acts of senseless

Violence



I see something wrong and I fix it with my hands

I walk a thin blue line, this cross I came to bear

I see something wrong and I fix it with my hands

I walk a thin blue line and I'll be the one who laughs when,

You die